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Mustafa Kemal and Turkey in the Correspondences of Soviet Bureaucrats (1918-1922) The Turkish Yearbook of International Relations, Volume 48 (2017), p. 37-49. DOI : 10.1501/Intrel_0000000312 Mustafa Kemal and Turkey in the Correspondences of Soviet Bureaucrats (1918-1922) Telli Korkmaz Abstract Capitalism and socialism has been the most common ideologies in the world history geographically. While capitalism feeding from a system based on proprietary property and colonialism caused the French Revolution of 1789, socialism putting forward collective property, economic equality, and community brought about the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. Capitalism dragged Europe into the First World War in 1914 called ‘’war of sharing the world’’. Since the most important regions which were desired to be shared by the countries which were the responsible for starting the First World War were in the borders of the Ottoman Empire, it was evaluated that early years of 20th century were years troubling for the history of Turkey. The citizens and administrators of the state became a focal point of the events of political and economic. The Treaty of Sevr (1920), which it aggravated the situation in Turkey and affected all ideas, movements, and ideologies, was signed at this period. One of the open-minded personalities to new ideologies in the Ottoman Empire bureaucracy was Mustafa Kemal Pasha, who is the founder of the Republic of Turkey. Even if the National Struggle movement, which were similar with the French Revolution of 1789 and the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 and Assistant Prof. Dr., Hacı Bektaş Veli University, Faculty of Arts and Science, Department of History, [email protected], [email protected] (orcid.org/0000-0002-8513-706X) Makale geliş tarihi : 17.01.2018 Makale kabul tarihi : 06.02.2018 38 The Turkish Yearbook of International Relations, Volume 48 (2017) started by Mustafa Kemal Pasha was affected by both ideologies of that period, it was different them. Researches based on only European, which was related to the Kemalist movement has been carried out so far. However, it is undeniable that Russian archives are of great importance on Kemalist movement. Those archives consist of unpublished correspondences, and several intelligence texts of Soviet Russia related to the National Struggle movement besides. In this study, the documents related to Mustafa Kemal Pasha and Turkey contained in the various correspondences of Soviet Russia between 1918 and 1922 were investigated. Moreover, Mustafa Kemal Pasha was also compared with Lenin and Mustafa Kemal’s view against Soviet Russia and Lenin’s thoughts towards the National Struggle movement were evaluated. Lenin's ways of obtaining information and the nature of his intelligence were queried. As a result, it was seen that Soviet Russia had an accurate and in-depth knowledge about Turkey which was newly getting established and the leaders of the states of Turkey and Soviet carried out strategies in direction of national and common interests in foreign policy. Keywords Mustafa Kemal Pasha, Socialism, Kemalists, Russia, Turkey Introduction As a result of the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, the Tsarist regime, which kept the Russian Empire alive, was overthrown, and Vladimir Ilyic Lenin began to direct new Russian state in the form of Soviet administration. Lenin, who needed successful and talented staff, also benefited from the Tsarist statesmen when needed. Although it was not easy to strengthen the new state and new regime during First World War, Lenin and his team were able to overcome difficulties with diplomatic maneuvers. The Soviet Russia administration first decided to withdraw from First World War unprivileged and without compensation and reported it to the warring states; and then tried to make an agreement with states, which were close to the Soviet Russia. Thus they began to carry out the Sovietisation program in various regions of Russia. Before Bolshevik power, the Communist Party local organizations, which were Telli Korkmaz - Mustafa Kemal and Turkey in the Correspondences of Soviet Bureaucrats 39 founded by support of Bolsheviks in various regions was converted into a branch of the Soviet Centre with the power of the Bolsheviks in Moscow. Telegrams, letters, encrypted information and news were sent by those organizations to the Central Committee and Foreign Affairs. In this historical period, the Community of Union and Progress in Ottoman state had control over Turkey. This fact continued until the Mondros Armistice. Heavy conditions of the armistice deeply affected people and bureaucracy of the Ottoman Empire in a negative way. Because of the heavy conditions, Mustafa Kemal Pasha, who first discerned disadvantages of the Mondros Armistice started the National Struggle movement. Mustafa Kemal Pasha who was well-known by several states due to his success of the Gallipoli Wars was a recognized leader by Russia anymore. In Istanbul, even if the Committee of Union and Progress seemed to govern the state, the people begin to struggle for independence against internal and external forces with the leadership of Mustafa Kemal Pasha. At the same time, although Bolshevik administration, which was in power fighting against imperialism declared its support to Mustafa Kemal Pasha, it kept to contact with the members of the Committee of Union and Progress to take advantage of them. Mustafa Kemal and Communism In Anatolia, as known, principles of the National Struggle movement starting in the lead of Mustafa Kemal Pasha were announced to the public opinion by Amasya Circular published in 1919, then approved by the last Ottoman Parliament on Erzurum and Sivas Congresses. Thus the first step of the National Struggle movement was achieved, which it was named ‘’Misakımilli’’. This movement was a struggle against strangers who attacked the state. The main target of the National Struggle movement was to protect the state rather than becoming a spokesman of any political thought. Mustafa Kemal Pasha, who leaded the struggle with the similar national feelings skilfully made the political maneuvers against the states, which faced with some problems due to the effects of First World War. Mustafa Kemal Pasha was also wary of the Soviet Government, which came to power after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 in Russia. Ankara Government and Soviet Government, which united to struggle together against the imperialists contacted with each other in a short time to support each other. 40 The Turkish Yearbook of International Relations, Volume 48 (2017) However, the expectations of those governments from each other completely were different. The targets of Ankara Government were to build good ties, to cooperate, to get weapons support, and to struggle against the Western imperialism, which was the common enemy of them. On the other hand the Soviet Government was thinking about that the National Struggle movement was struggling against the Western imperialism, at the same time was considering that it was an awakening of the Islamic society. As seen from the declaration that was published for the Labour Day on 1 of May, 1919, they planned to build a communist regime in Turkey1. Additionally, the policies carried out by First World War Allies against Russia and Turkey were also effective to strengthen the ties between them. The Bolsheviks which tookover of the management with the defeat of Russia in First World War immediately declared a ‘’Peace Decree’’ in which Bolsheviks wanted the warring states to end the war and to bring to a democratic peace in a way of without annexation and compensation2. Soviet administration subsequently was able to affect the warring states by revealing the secret treaties of tsarist and by becoming in a peace attempt with Germany respectively3. Somehow those positive politics carried out by Russia supported the National Struggle movement in Turkey. The Brest-Litovsk negotiations starting as a result of the peace calls of Russia included in the conversations between L. Kamenev, who was effective on the Russian delegates and Zeki Pasha offered by Enver Pasha, who was an expert on military affairs in which Kamenev's reported that Russia was ready to withdraw from Anatolia and according to the Brest-Litovsk negotiations signed on March 3th, 1918, that the regions of Batum-Kars-Ardahan was given Turkey back by being given up the claims of tsarist Russia on Turkey provided a proper cicumstance for the National Struggle movement on the Eastern Front4. Mustafa Kemal Pasha who carefully followed political developments and situation of the region tried to develop the relationships with the Bolsheviks and also did not thought about that cooperating with them was a threat for Turkey. His thoughts could be understood from his letter which was written to 15th Army Corps Commander Kazim Karabekir Pasha (June 23th, 1919). He was emphasized in his letter that the Bolsheviks were also accepted in Kazan, 1 Haluk F. Gürsel, Tarih Boyunca Türk-Rus İlişkileri, İstanbul 1968, pp. 182-183. 2 Akdes Nimet Kurat, Brest-Litovsk Müzakereleri ve Barışı, Belleten, XXXI/121-124, Ankara, 1967, pp. 376. 3 Fahir Armaoğlu, 20. Yüzyıl Siyasi Tarihi (1914-1980), Cilt I, Ankara, 1992, p. 132. 4 Selma Yel, Brest-Litovsk Barış Konferansında Sovyet Rusya’nın Ermeni Politikası, Atatürk Araştırma Merkezi Dergisi, Cilt XVIII, Sayı 54, Kasım 2002, p. 836. Telli Korkmaz - Mustafa Kemal and Turkey in the Correspondences of Soviet Bureaucrats 41 Orenburg, and Crimea whose people were Muslims and reported that they were not interested in the efforts disrupting of the state regulation. The rest of his letter was of great importance in terms of his considerations against the Bolsheviks in which it was expressed that if the Bolsheviks were getting strengthened we needed to be impartial, thus Entente forces would leave our state, whereas our state would be exposed to be invaded by the Bolsheviks. He also emphasized that we did not need to wait for the Bolsheviks’ offer, and added that why we did not sent a couple of persons to Russia to meet with Bolsheviks.
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